THE CASE OF DAGADU.
Having realized the efficacy of the sexual interest in matters propagandist^, Sir Hugh Clifford, taking a leaf out of the manuals of the experts in this art, is not above utilizing the equally effective sentimental appeal for depicting the wickedness of the German. Therefore the old stop "Moral Indignation" is pulled out to the full and the reader edified by an account of the harsh treatment meted out by German law to a noble black, Dagadu, paramount chieftain of Kpandu. The case of Dagadu is to Sir Hugh's booklet what the case of Hendrik Wittbooi was to the notorious Blue Book — and the motive is the same in each.
It is characteristic in this case, as in others that Sir Hugh Clifford does not trouble to base his charges upon an investigation of the facts established in the case (which were all accessible to him) but merely upon the tale told him, as he himself confesses, by Dagadu himself — scarcely an impartial witness! It is therefore small wonder that we are once more treated to a caricature of the truth, sketched in with much vindictiveness.
Clifford seeks to establish a sort of premiss by declaring that the German Colonial Government rigidly excluded the public from its law courts and caused all cases to be heard in camera, when formal trial was not altogether dispensed with. This is a blow full in the face of Truth. It is impossible to assume that the Governor of a neighbouring colony did not actually know what was known to every white and
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